Google docs- Google's answer to the Microsoft Office suite
What it is:
Docs
Create and share your work online
Upload your files from your desktop: It's easy to get started and it's free!
Access anywhere: Edit and view your docs from any computer or smart phone.
Share your work: Real-time collaboration means work gets done more quickly.
Most students in seventh grade or above are familiar with this Google tool. It lets you make a document, presentation, spreadsheet, or table, among other things. Basically, if Microsoft Office does it, this program does it too. There are some features Microsoft doesn't have. Everything in Google docs saves automatically, so that it's pretty much impossible to lose your work. You can also make a form, like a quiz, or a drawing. You can share your work with someone else, so that they can edit too. If more than one person is working on something, they can use the chat bar to collaborate in real time. I really can't see any problems with this tool.
Rating:
Here's a document I made last year for science. The embedding feature didn't really work for me, but you can access the poster through the link. Nutria poster
This is the video that Google made for the program. It's just a little out of date, but still useful.
Google docs- Google's answer to the Microsoft Office suite
What it is:Docs
Create and share your work online
Most students in seventh grade or above are familiar with this Google tool. It lets you make a document, presentation, spreadsheet, or table, among other things. Basically, if Microsoft Office does it, this program does it too. There are some features Microsoft doesn't have. Everything in Google docs saves automatically, so that it's pretty much impossible to lose your work. You can also make a form, like a quiz, or a drawing. You can share your work with someone else, so that they can edit too. If more than one person is working on something, they can use the chat bar to collaborate in real time. I really can't see any problems with this tool.
Rating:
Here's a document I made last year for science. The embedding feature didn't really work for me, but you can access the poster through the link.
Nutria poster
This is the video that Google made for the program. It's just a little out of date, but still useful.
I found this video very helpful.